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The movies have always been in Jake Gyllenhaal’s blood.
While Gyllenhaal enrolled in Columbia University, he dropped out to pursue acting full time.
In celebration of his ongoing career, here are 32 of Jake Gyllenhaal’s greatest movies.
But Gyllenhaal more than proves his leading man mettle.
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Joe, a young man still mourning the death of his fiance’s murder.
Proof (2005)
Gwyneth Paltrow wrestles with the burden of genius and inheritance in the moving drama Proof.
The problem: The lifeform is very intelligent, andverydangerous.
There’s nothing wrong, except for everything.
Soon, Gyllenhaal goes toe-to-toe and fist-to-fist with a gang mercenary (Conor McGregor).
He plays a wealthy banker still reeling from the death of his wife in a car accident.
Over time, the two find themselves changing each other’s lives forever.
He plays reigning boxing champ Billy Hope whose undefeated streak masks a severe degeneration of his health.
Even if it’s just words on a page, words still cut deep.
The movie takes the point of view of a handheld digital camera owned by Gyllenhaal’s Taylor.
The Covenant is a moving and rousing action movie about the strength of bonds that transcend barriers.
It is also proof that Guy Ritchie can exercise tonal restraint even when bullets go flying.
In 2017, director David Gordon Green helmed a sincere cinematic adaptation of Bauman’s book and experiences.
Pursuing this path came at the cost of his father’s dreams for him to become a coal miner.
A young Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a memorable early leading man performance as Homer Hickam.
Gyllenhaal’s mission is to identify the terrorists who planted the bomb before another attack strikes.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
“I wish I could quit you.”
Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger play two Wyoming cowboys who fall in love over a 20-year period.
Brokeback Mountain won widespread acclaim from critics in 2005.
In 2018, it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
In Villeneuve’s cerebral thriller, Gyllenhaal plays an obsessive detective who is determined to locate two missing girls.
(Gyllenhaal’s real-life sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, co-stars as his onscreen sister too.)
